03/17/09 09-021

San Francisco Police Arrest Three Suspects In February 23 Tenderloin Homicide

San Francisco police have arrested three suspects in the homicide that occurred on February 23, 2009 near the intersection of Turk and Taylor streets at 10:22 P.M. Taken into custody last Saturday afternoon, March 14, in Oakland were Javon Fee, 28, of Oakland; Rorico Reyna, 29, of Hayward; and Barbara Barnes, 24, of San Francisco.

In this incident, witnesses described the suspects arriving at the scene in a late model Mercedes-Benz SUV and getting into a short argument and then firing at a group of people standing on the sidewalk, striking six people. One of the victims, Latesha Hunter, 33, died from her injuries. After the shooting, the suspects in the SUV fled.

An SFPD patrol unit pursued the vehicle onto the Bay Bridge, but did not continue the pursuit because to do so would have exacerbated the speed and reckless driving of the suspect vehicle, further endangering the public. The vehicle was last reported taking an off ramp in a commercial area of Oakland, and was later found abandoned and burned at 34th Street and Telegraph in Oakland.